Sougwen, David Last and Margaret Schedel "Sprawl"
Devotion Gallery
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Sprawl is an open edition of live drawing installations hosted at Devotion Gallery which aims to create a momentary graphical map of an intersection between creative improvisation and substructure. Edition one features Sougwen, David Last and Margaret Schedel. Using chalk for its approachable immediacy, Sougwen and David Last improvise an expanding thicket of abstract organic forms, reminiscent of bits of plants, animals, smoke, nerve clusters or rivers seen from the air. Noting the paradox that a limiting structure can provide the most open sense of creative freedom, a faint structure based upon projections of computer- randomized forms is applied to the wall before the performance. The artist's role within this system is to react to the moment, through both visual creative urge and sound inspiration; while using the landscape of pre- defined random activation as a method of sparking inner dialogue. The human mind, being a pattern recogni- tion machine, pulls relationships and structures out of chaos, and the line-sprawl expands like ivy across the walls and ceiling of the spac
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Schedule
from September 23, 2011 to October 02, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-09-23 from 19:00 to 22:00